I don't understand why 'business reasons' and 'moral reasons' are mutually exclusive as so many seem to be implying here. A Business decision is one made to benefit a business practice or company implementing it. Google could have clearly made a moral decision that was also a business decision by saying 'We refuse to provide services to a nation censoring because our customers would not be free to seek the information they need, therefore they would choose not to use our services. ' Believe it or not usually the moral choice is the most business savvy choice; its the one that wins long term customers, builds reputation, and satisfies customers completely.
All the examples you provide required very little innovative thinking or advances in technology to have. The powerglove could have provided a cooking simulator, but surprise surprise, no one's running out to buy cooking simulator 5000. Why? because cooking is a fucking chore. No one is going to immerse themselves in a universe of feeding my goddamn face.
Real adults are so lazy they DON'T GET OUT OF THEIR CARS IN ORDER TO CONSUME FOOD. It needs to be handed to us through a window pre-prepared. Do you think this same adult is going to buy a game where I have to engage in a motor skills learning curve just to figure out how to mimic in real life some lame activity?
The Wiimote isn't going to revolutionize gaming. Sony and later microsoft threw millions into the industry to try and bring gaming to everyone. Prior to that, gaming was a kids thing or a small segment of adutls thing. Now its huge and tons of people game. That's why Sony and Microsoft are #1 and #2, because they brought gaming to everyone and made a game for every type of person. Nintendo is instead taking a different approach by marketing their product with a bad name and creating a user experience that's way different for a group who just figured out how to use an analog joystick.
Want proof that controllers don't matter? Look at sales of racing games versus sales of racing wheel controllers. Racing wheels suck, even though they're the most sensible way to control a car. But they are very rarely sold because the immersion that you're looking for comes in bringing the best looking cars, with real licensed brands, and actual recorded exhaust sounds, and ranking systems and online play. Not gimmicks.
I kind of disagree. For me, it was more of a parabola. I hated Windows 3.1, hated 95 less, 98 even less, 98SE I had contempt for, and then the peak is Windows 2000, which was the most Stable and least-resource hungry. Then ME and XP were released... XP maintains some of the stability but they wonked up a ton of little things. And it looks like Vista is just stacking more 'stuff' on top to annoy me.
I think why I liked 2000 so much was that it was NT done right, a well written and stable OS without a lot of clutter. I think that if Vista really was a new OS, not just enhancements to their existing codebase, then we'd be okay with it.
I think we'll have a 2000-like resurgence in a good Windows when a Windows OS is released as a managed code OS. until then I'll keep dreaming.
I feel the same way. My friends all have newer computers , but I bought this 386 on a lark. Man , was it cheap. and it definitely didn't have any of that sense of 'newness'. God I hate that. I don't use it, but once in a while my friends will come over and boot up wordperfect.
Every day there is news of how Dick Cheney is getting fatter on Halbituron dollars
How much money has Cheney made on Halliburton contracts since he became vice president? Are you just mouthing the same drivel that everyone else does?
The wage and salary income reported on the tax return includes the Vice President's $203,000 government salary. In addition, the tax return reports the payment of deferred compensation from Halliburton Company in the amount of $194,852. In December 1998, the Vice President elected to defer compensation earned in calendar year 1999 for his services as chief executive officer of Halliburton. This amount was required be paid in fixed annual installments (with interest) in the five years after the Vice President's retirement from Halliburton. That election to defer income became final and unalterable before Mr. Cheney left Halliburton. The amount of deferred compensation received by the Vice President is fixed and is not affected in any way by Halliburton's current economic performance or earnings. The tax return also reports Mrs. Cheney's wage and salary income from the American Enterprise Institute and compensation from Reader's Digest, on whose board of directors she served until her retirement in 2003. -- White House Website, referring to 04 tax returns
Most government officials as high up as the P and VP don't need money. Almost everything is paid for. Room, board, clothes, etc. What does GW and DC spend their billions of dollars of blood money on?
Also, you claim GW is hell bent on dictatorship. I'll believe that when Bush refuses to step down. In 2 1/2 years he won't be eligible for re-election.
God, my mouth puckers with all the sour grapes around here.
If the successful launch of the 360 proved anything, its that the price point in consumers minds has gone up. Unlike the 360, which the $299 system was just stupid, the $499 PS2 will be the favorite. Extra hard drive space is meaningless in the games world. as long as it had ten gigs, it would be fine.
Basically its going to be the $399 xbox full system versus the $499 ps3. Both have 20 hard disks, online play, dashboards, wireless controllers, etc. What will make or break either is the library of games. Right now the 360 has a poor offering... I own one and I only own 7 games out of a potential 30 or 40. If xbox hits its game stride come fall, then things might be different. But don't count sony out.
Within a year more then 1million consumers will have a PS3 and therefor will generate demand for blu-ray movies.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. PSP had its own proprietary movie format, and there are probably 1 million PSP sales to date (actually, according to Wikipedia, 10 million units as of oct 2005), yet UMD is struggling/floundering/dying. People do not yet buy video game consoles and let that drive their movie purchases. You're right, no one will buy a $300 add-on. People will just buy a $300 HD-DVD standalone unit and have both.
Kids will probably play Blu-Ray movies on their PS3. But adults still don't understand technology convergence that well. They'll want a standalone player. Don't underestimate the weirdness of the market.
Heck, the real turning point (past %50 penetration) of DVD was the DVD/VCR combo box. People were so deathgrip on the old technology that they bought both in one box.
The shitty thing about TV delivery is that it costs $50+ and you have to wait in an allotted four hour window. Plus that's one more cog in the chain that could drop your TV and delay it even more.
Zipcars are around $10 an hour. So if its a two hour affair getting your TV, then you end up saving some money. You don't pay gas in a zipcar. So you save time and potentially money.
My older cars from the 1970s didn't have nearly as many problems as newer cars do with their advanced computer systems and emission control systems.
This sounds like old-wives-tale-ism. New cars require less maintenence and are much safer. A 1980 Chevrolet Caprice required annual tune ups and took up more space / weighed more than today's Toyota Corolla, which needs a tune up every 100,000 miles.
The difference is computer controlled cars that are smaller, lighter and more efficient don't affect the safety of the occupants, versus using an 'environmentally friendly' solution to the foam application DID affect the safety of the shuttle occupants.
How good was it to the environment to have those astronauts perish? do you think that the Shuttle breaking up was better for the environment? I think what the parent poster is saying is, There is a time and a place to apply standards. On a supercomplex system like the shuttle, an exemption probably would have made sense.
Does the Judge putting this stuff in the judgement show that he is a fan and could be used by the lawyers to indicate they did not get a fair trial?
Or, more interesting to note, does it mean they got a MORE fair trial because the judge actually did his homework and read the book in question? The more educated a judge or lawyer is about a subject, the better the chances that he comes down on the correct side. At least I hope, anways.
I have worked on a number of software projects and the kind of projects that end up being real success stories usually have very tightly knit client/developer contact. Many of our projects (I work for a firm that writes custom web and windows applications on the small to medium scale) have weekly client meetings, initial face to face introductions, and after-deployment training and handshaking. Its cheaper by the hour, but the end/net result of using outsourced labor for programming ends up being a wash, or even worse, cheaper for using American Labor.
Callcenters are different. It is easier to manage callcenters and once the callcenter has the script / jobs down, its sort of a fire and forget thing. Good software development in my experience isn't like that.
Thats right, all those positions should be filled with advocates who have no industry experience. Or, better yet, with nubile young 'advocacy' grads or whatever other social services equivalent degrees exist.
Do you know if previous presidents appointed people NOT in the industry? Are you looking for someone appointed who has no experience and therefore can recommend regulations that ruin the businesses that provide those services? Nope, I read a one-sided leftist website, I'm as informed as I need to be!
What objective standard do you intend to use? How much is 'too much'? Who gets to decide?
The idea is you don't punish the good for being the good. That's like saying, why don't we ban the New York Yankees from baseball because they have the most talented players? I think they're hitting way more home runs than they need to.
If I owned a farm and had a bumper crop of corn one year, should I be penalized for being successful? What if I have ten farmers, all working cooperatively? What is the demarcation line for government or anyone to step in because 'success' has been too great.
At least with the oil companies example, people can (falsely) argue that gas is 'owned by everyone' and therefore has a 'public responsibility'. With your arguement, the ideas of Microsoft and their labor is 'owned by everybody' and therefore subject to limiting restrictions as someone sees fit.
BUT has anyone considered what the press has said about firefox in the past? Last year, firefox was all over the press due to it security flaws.
I am a big microsoft fan, but I think you're viewpoint is misguided. Before the round of patches two years ago, IE was a spyware and malware magnet. I didn't even know what a hijacked browser was until I saw the shit my mom's computer had on it. It was a nightmare to fix. I hid all IE icons and installed firefox, and changed its default icon, and most of the problems went away. IE is pretty close to being better, but my mom and hundreds like her were screwed by malware due to IE.
Firefox took about 1/1000th the hit IE has in the last few years. Did IE get fixed? Yeah. But bad memories remain.
Firefox , IMHO, is something that the OSS community got RIGHT. People can switch between IE and Firefox without knowing the difference. That's the Idea. There aren't a lot of Linux Distros or other software programs like that.
I totally agree. Also, I think Geeks in general (and I am a self-professed geek) tend to only focus on traditionally geeky things. After I graduated college, I decided to take up hobbies... I program for fun for a half hour every night, but I also learned to play the trumpet, and exercise for 1/2 hour 3 days a week. Being well rounded makes you better, not worse, at your primary tasks.
I have a hard time believing that executives 'stole' the idea. Any reasonable company, before demo'ing, usually asks clients to sign a Non-disclosure Agreement.
If Tivo didn't ask for this, then they're crazy. If they did and Echostar pursued technology anyways in violation of the NDA, Tivo has a great case.
I bet 'recording to a hard drive' was in the executives minds before Tivo came in. I think Tivo just packaged the idea and useability of a unit much better than anyone on the market. Echostar execs probably saw the unit, but didn't like the price, so tried to do it their way. it flopped, but is it patent infringement?
Same can be said for mining coal or uranium, drilling for oil , etc. Making houses requires clearing forests. Human survival requires reshaping the earth so we don't die.
Relatively speaking, Geothermal energy is impact free compared to the above. That's what humans do. We might not do it the best way the first time, but we eventually make it better. Human progress is steps in the right direction. To say we shouldn't explore because of potential bad things when compared to what we 're doing now, those bad things are miniscle, is silly.
hahah. If its in the movies, it must be true. Bravo! Even classier, how the first link doesn't say anything about the land sinking in. Genius. Mods take notice, this is a classic troll.
Yeah, but to be slightly off-topic, Apache, PHP and MySQL run like ass on Windows. For low traffic, sure, you get decent results. But we loaded a heavy-traffic production server out on WAMP and it went down every day. We'd have to constantly restart the server during high traffic periods. We'd get weird errors. Apache , PHP and MySQL run best on Linux, and I think its because of the threading model. Can't be sure though.
A better arguement, instead of 'I don't trust you', is the arguement that We have the right to Bear Arms in the Methods of Self Defense. Nukes, hellfile missles, or anything of the like are not weapons of the self-defense, they are weapons of mass destruction. You cannot effectively kill your assalant without killing hundreds or millions of others. They are by definition not the weapons the founding fathers meant.
I believe we should be able to own guns. But I don't believe we should be able to own guns that fire at a rate obviously meant to kill multiple targets, or kill hundreds of people. That's just ludicris. If we 'needed to take down our goverment', the founding fathers meant for the citizenry to band together and form militias; certainly not one disgruntled citizen with a Tomahawk Missle.
Hell, even look at the military. No one man is 'finally' in charge of major weaponry. The more destructive a weapon, the more people involved in authorizing its use.
Majorly complex engineering projects like the shuttle try to eliminate any unnecessary variances in its mode of operation. Beleive it or not, those engineers would have to spend about a year researching about whether yellow paint heats differently than red or white paint.
Either way, you gotta love the balls to the wall attitude
Haha. Balls to the wall? with what? Free online? Like xbox360? How about worldwide launch? Like xbox360? The only thing they're doing different is making hard drive required (which, by the way, was the dumbest move by microsoft... so many developers were able to extend the life of the original xbox because they could use the hard drive as swap space, not requiring it is stupid). PS3's main draw will be if it has better online integration of games or if it is a better media center type machine.
PS3 is late, and that sucks. Sony has a lot of exclusive games that people will want better versions of. I have an xbox360, and I love it, but I can't get guitar hero, and a lot of other titles that seem to end up PS2 only. Although a lot of games are released simultaneously on all major platforms nowadays, which might mean that, like i said above, it may come down to hardware coolness/non-games stuff as opposed to what it used to come down to, which was game library depth.
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I don't understand why 'business reasons' and 'moral reasons' are mutually exclusive as so many seem to be implying here. A Business decision is one made to benefit a business practice or company implementing it. Google could have clearly made a moral decision that was also a business decision by saying 'We refuse to provide services to a nation censoring because our customers would not be free to seek the information they need, therefore they would choose not to use our services. ' Believe it or not usually the moral choice is the most business savvy choice; its the one that wins long term customers, builds reputation, and satisfies customers completely.
All the examples you provide required very little innovative thinking or advances in technology to have. The powerglove could have provided a cooking simulator, but surprise surprise, no one's running out to buy cooking simulator 5000. Why? because cooking is a fucking chore. No one is going to immerse themselves in a universe of feeding my goddamn face.
Real adults are so lazy they DON'T GET OUT OF THEIR CARS IN ORDER TO CONSUME FOOD. It needs to be handed to us through a window pre-prepared. Do you think this same adult is going to buy a game where I have to engage in a motor skills learning curve just to figure out how to mimic in real life some lame activity?
The Wiimote isn't going to revolutionize gaming. Sony and later microsoft threw millions into the industry to try and bring gaming to everyone. Prior to that, gaming was a kids thing or a small segment of adutls thing. Now its huge and tons of people game. That's why Sony and Microsoft are #1 and #2, because they brought gaming to everyone and made a game for every type of person. Nintendo is instead taking a different approach by marketing their product with a bad name and creating a user experience that's way different for a group who just figured out how to use an analog joystick.
Want proof that controllers don't matter? Look at sales of racing games versus sales of racing wheel controllers. Racing wheels suck, even though they're the most sensible way to control a car. But they are very rarely sold because the immersion that you're looking for comes in bringing the best looking cars, with real licensed brands, and actual recorded exhaust sounds, and ranking systems and online play. Not gimmicks.
I kind of disagree. For me, it was more of a parabola. I hated Windows 3.1, hated 95 less, 98 even less, 98SE I had contempt for, and then the peak is Windows 2000, which was the most Stable and least-resource hungry. Then ME and XP were released... XP maintains some of the stability but they wonked up a ton of little things. And it looks like Vista is just stacking more 'stuff' on top to annoy me.
I think why I liked 2000 so much was that it was NT done right, a well written and stable OS without a lot of clutter. I think that if Vista really was a new OS, not just enhancements to their existing codebase, then we'd be okay with it.
I think we'll have a 2000-like resurgence in a good Windows when a Windows OS is released as a managed code OS. until then I'll keep dreaming.
I feel the same way. My friends all have newer computers , but I bought this 386 on a lark. Man , was it cheap. and it definitely didn't have any of that sense of 'newness'. God I hate that. I don't use it, but once in a while my friends will come over and boot up wordperfect.
correlation does not imply causation
Where the hell is that quote when a global warming thread comes around?
Every day there is news of how Dick Cheney is getting fatter on Halbituron dollars
How much money has Cheney made on Halliburton contracts since he became vice president? Are you just mouthing the same drivel that everyone else does?
The wage and salary income reported on the tax return includes the Vice President's $203,000 government salary. In addition, the tax return reports the payment of deferred compensation from Halliburton Company in the amount of $194,852. In December 1998, the Vice President elected to defer compensation earned in calendar year 1999 for his services as chief executive officer of Halliburton. This amount was required be paid in fixed annual installments (with interest) in the five years after the Vice President's retirement from Halliburton. That election to defer income became final and unalterable before Mr. Cheney left Halliburton. The amount of deferred compensation received by the Vice President is fixed and is not affected in any way by Halliburton's current economic performance or earnings. The tax return also reports Mrs. Cheney's wage and salary income from the American Enterprise Institute and compensation from Reader's Digest, on whose board of directors she served until her retirement in 2003. -- White House Website, referring to 04 tax returns
Most government officials as high up as the P and VP don't need money. Almost everything is paid for. Room, board, clothes, etc. What does GW and DC spend their billions of dollars of blood money on?
Also, you claim GW is hell bent on dictatorship. I'll believe that when Bush refuses to step down. In 2 1/2 years he won't be eligible for re-election.
God, my mouth puckers with all the sour grapes around here.
If the successful launch of the 360 proved anything, its that the price point in consumers minds has gone up. Unlike the 360, which the $299 system was just stupid, the $499 PS2 will be the favorite. Extra hard drive space is meaningless in the games world. as long as it had ten gigs, it would be fine.
Basically its going to be the $399 xbox full system versus the $499 ps3. Both have 20 hard disks, online play, dashboards, wireless controllers, etc. What will make or break either is the library of games. Right now the 360 has a poor offering... I own one and I only own 7 games out of a potential 30 or 40. If xbox hits its game stride come fall, then things might be different. But don't count sony out.
(fyi, I am an MS fanboy).
Within a year more then 1million consumers will have a PS3 and therefor will generate demand for blu-ray movies.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. PSP had its own proprietary movie format, and there are probably 1 million PSP sales to date (actually, according to Wikipedia, 10 million units as of oct 2005), yet UMD is struggling/floundering/dying. People do not yet buy video game consoles and let that drive their movie purchases. You're right, no one will buy a $300 add-on. People will just buy a $300 HD-DVD standalone unit and have both.
Kids will probably play Blu-Ray movies on their PS3. But adults still don't understand technology convergence that well. They'll want a standalone player. Don't underestimate the weirdness of the market.
Heck, the real turning point (past %50 penetration) of DVD was the DVD/VCR combo box. People were so deathgrip on the old technology that they bought both in one box.
The shitty thing about TV delivery is that it costs $50+ and you have to wait in an allotted four hour window. Plus that's one more cog in the chain that could drop your TV and delay it even more.
Zipcars are around $10 an hour. So if its a two hour affair getting your TV, then you end up saving some money. You don't pay gas in a zipcar. So you save time and potentially money.
I'll bite...
My older cars from the 1970s didn't have nearly as many problems as newer cars do with their advanced computer systems and emission control systems.
This sounds like old-wives-tale-ism. New cars require less maintenence and are much safer. A 1980 Chevrolet Caprice required annual tune ups and took up more space / weighed more than today's Toyota Corolla, which needs a tune up every 100,000 miles.
The difference is computer controlled cars that are smaller, lighter and more efficient don't affect the safety of the occupants, versus using an 'environmentally friendly' solution to the foam application DID affect the safety of the shuttle occupants.
How good was it to the environment to have those astronauts perish? do you think that the Shuttle breaking up was better for the environment? I think what the parent poster is saying is, There is a time and a place to apply standards. On a supercomplex system like the shuttle, an exemption probably would have made sense.
Does the Judge putting this stuff in the judgement show that he is a fan and could be used by the lawyers to indicate they did not get a fair trial?
Or, more interesting to note, does it mean they got a MORE fair trial because the judge actually did his homework and read the book in question? The more educated a judge or lawyer is about a subject, the better the chances that he comes down on the correct side. At least I hope, anways.
I have worked on a number of software projects and the kind of projects that end up being real success stories usually have very tightly knit client/developer contact. Many of our projects (I work for a firm that writes custom web and windows applications on the small to medium scale) have weekly client meetings, initial face to face introductions, and after-deployment training and handshaking. Its cheaper by the hour, but the end/net result of using outsourced labor for programming ends up being a wash, or even worse, cheaper for using American Labor.
Callcenters are different. It is easier to manage callcenters and once the callcenter has the script / jobs down, its sort of a fire and forget thing. Good software development in my experience isn't like that.
Thats right, all those positions should be filled with advocates who have no industry experience. Or, better yet, with nubile young 'advocacy' grads or whatever other social services equivalent degrees exist.
Do you know if previous presidents appointed people NOT in the industry? Are you looking for someone appointed who has no experience and therefore can recommend regulations that ruin the businesses that provide those services? Nope, I read a one-sided leftist website, I'm as informed as I need to be!
I agree with you. The recent 'dumping' of UMD by major studios is a great example of how video game consoles don't drive movie sales.
Most non-technical adults with children have standalone DVD players even though their video game systems play DVDs.
The real factors to watch are affordability, availability of titles, and compatibility with TVs.
What objective standard do you intend to use? How much is 'too much'? Who gets to decide?
The idea is you don't punish the good for being the good. That's like saying, why don't we ban the New York Yankees from baseball because they have the most talented players? I think they're hitting way more home runs than they need to.
If I owned a farm and had a bumper crop of corn one year, should I be penalized for being successful? What if I have ten farmers, all working cooperatively? What is the demarcation line for government or anyone to step in because 'success' has been too great.
At least with the oil companies example, people can (falsely) argue that gas is 'owned by everyone' and therefore has a 'public responsibility'. With your arguement, the ideas of Microsoft and their labor is 'owned by everybody' and therefore subject to limiting restrictions as someone sees fit.
BUT has anyone considered what the press has said about firefox in the past? Last year, firefox was all over the press due to it security flaws.
I am a big microsoft fan, but I think you're viewpoint is misguided. Before the round of patches two years ago, IE was a spyware and malware magnet. I didn't even know what a hijacked browser was until I saw the shit my mom's computer had on it. It was a nightmare to fix. I hid all IE icons and installed firefox, and changed its default icon, and most of the problems went away. IE is pretty close to being better, but my mom and hundreds like her were screwed by malware due to IE.
Firefox took about 1/1000th the hit IE has in the last few years. Did IE get fixed? Yeah. But bad memories remain.
Firefox , IMHO, is something that the OSS community got RIGHT. People can switch between IE and Firefox without knowing the difference. That's the Idea. There aren't a lot of Linux Distros or other software programs like that.
I totally agree. Also, I think Geeks in general (and I am a self-professed geek) tend to only focus on traditionally geeky things. After I graduated college, I decided to take up hobbies... I program for fun for a half hour every night, but I also learned to play the trumpet, and exercise for 1/2 hour 3 days a week. Being well rounded makes you better, not worse, at your primary tasks.
I have a hard time believing that executives 'stole' the idea. Any reasonable company, before demo'ing, usually asks clients to sign a Non-disclosure Agreement.
If Tivo didn't ask for this, then they're crazy. If they did and Echostar pursued technology anyways in violation of the NDA, Tivo has a great case.
I bet 'recording to a hard drive' was in the executives minds before Tivo came in. I think Tivo just packaged the idea and useability of a unit much better than anyone on the market. Echostar execs probably saw the unit, but didn't like the price, so tried to do it their way. it flopped, but is it patent infringement?
"it may cause sinking of land at the surface"
Same can be said for mining coal or uranium, drilling for oil , etc. Making houses requires clearing forests. Human survival requires reshaping the earth so we don't die.
Relatively speaking, Geothermal energy is impact free compared to the above. That's what humans do. We might not do it the best way the first time, but we eventually make it better. Human progress is steps in the right direction. To say we shouldn't explore because of potential bad things when compared to what we 're doing now, those bad things are miniscle, is silly.
hahah. If its in the movies, it must be true. Bravo!
Even classier, how the first link doesn't say anything about the land sinking in. Genius. Mods take notice, this is a classic troll.
Yeah, but to be slightly off-topic, Apache, PHP and MySQL run like ass on Windows. For low traffic, sure, you get decent results. But we loaded a heavy-traffic production server out on WAMP and it went down every day. We'd have to constantly restart the server during high traffic periods. We'd get weird errors. Apache , PHP and MySQL run best on Linux, and I think its because of the threading model. Can't be sure though.
ALP is currently in unelectable self-destruct mode
So they *ARE* like the United States' Democrat party then!
A better arguement, instead of 'I don't trust you', is the arguement that We have the right to Bear Arms in the Methods of Self Defense. Nukes, hellfile missles, or anything of the like are not weapons of the self-defense, they are weapons of mass destruction. You cannot effectively kill your assalant without killing hundreds or millions of others. They are by definition not the weapons the founding fathers meant.
I believe we should be able to own guns. But I don't believe we should be able to own guns that fire at a rate obviously meant to kill multiple targets, or kill hundreds of people. That's just ludicris. If we 'needed to take down our goverment', the founding fathers meant for the citizenry to band together and form militias; certainly not one disgruntled citizen with a Tomahawk Missle.
Hell, even look at the military. No one man is 'finally' in charge of major weaponry. The more destructive a weapon, the more people involved in authorizing its use.
Majorly complex engineering projects like the shuttle try to eliminate any unnecessary variances in its mode of operation. Beleive it or not, those engineers would have to spend about a year researching about whether yellow paint heats differently than red or white paint.
It simply wouldn't be cost effective.
Either way, you gotta love the balls to the wall attitude
Haha. Balls to the wall? with what? Free online? Like xbox360? How about worldwide launch? Like xbox360? The only thing they're doing different is making hard drive required (which, by the way, was the dumbest move by microsoft... so many developers were able to extend the life of the original xbox because they could use the hard drive as swap space, not requiring it is stupid). PS3's main draw will be if it has better online integration of games or if it is a better media center type machine.
PS3 is late, and that sucks. Sony has a lot of exclusive games that people will want better versions of. I have an xbox360, and I love it, but I can't get guitar hero, and a lot of other titles that seem to end up PS2 only. Although a lot of games are released simultaneously on all major platforms nowadays, which might mean that, like i said above, it may come down to hardware coolness/non-games stuff as opposed to what it used to come down to, which was game library depth.